Monday, September 6, 2010

Who is in Control of your learning?

Who is in control of your learning?Is it the lecturer, sponsor, guardian, friend, the community or you? tough question! Think about it as we start the trimester! Meditate on the following quotation: 'imagine yourself on a ship sailing across an unknown sea, to an unknown destination. An adult would be desperate to know where he is going. But a child only knows he is going to school...The chart is neither available nor understandable to him... Very quickly, the daily life on board ship becomes all important ... The daily chores, the demands, the inspections, become the reality, not the voyage, nor the destination' (Mary Alice White, 1971) .

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Weak students and Choice of Question

Over time i have noted that, weak students in mathematics ALWAYS attempt the least popular questions in the exams?These questions, unfortunately, are always the tricky ones! What make the students attempt such questions?

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Importance of Dialogue

dialogue is important in learning. 'a word is a bridge thrown between myself and another' (Bakhtin,2001). Exploratory talk in mathematics group discussions enhance learning. Learn to encourage yourself to dialogue in your groups.